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29 March 2016 | 7:12
Reinhard Wagner
Projects and project management in India
The Republic of India is a country located in Southern Asia. The country got its name from the Greek word “Indus”, which means “the people who live near the Indus River“, a river flowing from Tibet, into Jammu and Kashmir and the rest of Pakistan. Neighbouring countries are Pakistan in the north-west, China and Nepal […]
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24 March 2016 | 5:02
Reinhard Wagner
Projects and project management in Latvia
The Republic of Latvia is a relatively young country in the Baltic region, located between Estonia in the North, Lithuania in the South, Russia and Belarus to the East. The country was formed in 1918 following the Russian Revolution and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk between Germany and Russia. During the Second World War it was […]
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22 March 2016 | 7:37
Reinhard Wagner
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Power and Politics in Projects
Projects are performed through people. People are influenced through projects and their leadership. Power and politics are gaining increasingly recognition as success factor for project management. With this blogpost I´d like to start a dialogue in the community in order to explore and better understand the topic. The IPMA Individual Competence Baseline 4.0 defines power […]
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16 March 2016 | 1:09
Reinhard Wagner
Change and Project Management – Two sides of the same medal
Recently a participant of a workshop asked me how change and project management differ. My answer came as a surprise to that person, because I see rather similarities and synergies instead of differentiating factors. In fact, I foresee the two disciplines growing together. What is change management? According to Wikipedia Change management “refers to any […]
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14 March 2016 | 8:36
Lucia Nievergelt
Project management in Switzerland
On February 18th and 19th the swiss project management association spm invited an international group of experts to join the IPMA Expert Seminar 2016 in Zürich. In the course of the seminar I was asked to contribute to the IPMA Blog with an article about project management in Switzerland. In the following articel I’d like […]
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09 March 2016 | 8:16
Helgi Thor Ingason
4th IPMA Research conference: Project Management and Sustainability
As a member of the Research Board of IPMA I can say that our goal is really to move project management knowledge forward. We do this by different means and one of them is to bring researchers, experts, scholars and practitioners together to discuss and develop ideas that are of value in this mission. Our […]
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07 March 2016 | 7:50
Anita Ceric
How to bring researchers and practitioners in project management closer together?
I believe that closer cooperation between researchers and practitioners in the project management field is essential for the development of the field. The closer, the better. Each side has something of value to offer. Practitioners have loads of practical experience that researchers cannot even dream about. But researchers have plenty of tools to interpret information […]
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04 March 2016 | 8:02
Fahri Akdemir
What can WE, as project professionals, do for society?
That is the question we ask to ourself when we see the news from all corners of the world, where people are having problems to find shelter and food, where people are suffering from poverty or sickness, where people are leaving their homes, where loved ones are escaping from war. I spent my nine years […]
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02 March 2016 | 8:08
Amin Saidoun
Project Management in Egypt: IPMA’s member association in Cairo as a linchpin of the Middle-East ?
Egypt has one of the longest histories of any modern country, arising in the tenth millennium BC as one of the world’s first nation states. Considered a cradle of civilisation, Ancient Egypt experienced some of the earliest developments of writing, agriculture, urbanisation, organised religion and central government. Iconic monuments such as the Giza Necropolis and […]
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29 February 2016 | 9:02
Reinhard Wagner
Projects and project management in Iran
Iran is home of one the world´s oldest civilisations, formations date back to 3200 BC. The first empire in the region was formed in 625 BC, after which it became the dominant cultural and political power in the region. Under Cyrus the Great it reached the pinnacle of its power, comprising of a region stretching […]
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